Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can say that yours can be dated c 1350–1530 . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't get a regular game for Bath 's first team so it never occurred to me that I might be selected , ’ he revealed . |
| 3 | It was Laura who had first recruited me to this task , she who had seen that I might be involved . |
| 4 | If I return to the matter of improving liaison is it possible that I might be provided with a list of the names of the various staff that serve the Branch and also the names of the Committee members- and this updated at whatever time of year the membership changes . |
| 5 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 6 | I learned later that , in the presence of a superior officer , he had wrongly suggested that I might be returned to the hotel after treatment . |
| 7 | The concept of an objective order demands the possibility of certain criteria of objectivity , such that I might be corrected by others on a given occasion , should I for any reason fall foul of such criteria . |
| 8 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 9 | Enough work so that I could enjoy it but not so much work that I would be fed up . |
| 10 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 11 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 12 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 13 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 14 | I felt scared that I would be seen as crazy — that I might even go crazy : that I would begin to see little green men , jump off a tower in the belief I could fly , or just sit in a corner humming ‘ Om ’ . |
| 15 | 6 Later , in a more morbid vein , he confessed : " I suspected all along that there was little possibility that I would be forgiven for making known publicly that Stalin disgusted me , and that I could not stomach the Nazi-Soviet pact and the events in Finland . |
| 16 | After travelling ‘ with knitting ’ for many years , I knew that I would be made welcome when I arrived . |
| 17 | Strangely enough , at no time did I have real doubts that I would be elected , and this determined my public attitude during the three successive ballots that were necessary . |
| 18 | Unfortunately there was to be no 200 metres event , but there were some invitation events scheduled including a 60 metres , and having won that event at the Cosford Games I thought that I would be selected . |
| 19 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |
| 20 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 21 | ‘ I like the exercise and , besides , I have two friends down the road in a Land Rover , ’ I said , implying that I would be given a lift . |
| 22 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 23 | The wood opposite was smoking with dusk again and I was looking forward to seeing the orderly , when my door was opened and I was told that I would be moved across to the main camp at once . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew there was a great possibility that I would be tortured . |
| 25 | It was unlikely that I would be offered a safe seat , but I might , with luck , be given a chance in a marginal . |
| 26 | Do you think , Mr Erlich , that if I went to your Embassy to request a detailed briefing concerning the work in my country of Mr Harry Lawrence , Central Intelligence Agency , that I would be shown anything , other than the door … ? ’ |
| 27 | Little did I know that I would be confronted with the loss of a loved one , my husband Norman , so soon and unexpectedly . |
| 28 | It , it depends on , on your individual circu , if your sister has a baby for you , she 's unlikely to say that I would be recompensed for my loss of earnings . |
| 29 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 30 | I thought about the possibility but when my friends kept saying that I would be chosen I said that I thought the selectors would go for more experience . |